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“There was also some stuff on focusing the effort on under-25s, which was less helpful, frankly, since they don’t tend to vote.”

It comes after Lord Kinnock savaged Jeremy Corbyn's chances of becoming Prime Minister, saying he fears he will never see another Labour Government in his lifetime.

The former leader of the Labour Party, 75, made his dire prediction ahead of the General Election scheduled to take place on June 8.

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Jeremy Corbyn made his first speech of the campaign yesterday

He told BBC Radio 5 Live’s John Pienaar: “I think that it’s unlikely that we will make the kind of gains because – as I said before, unless there are substantial changes, that I am unlikely to live to see another Labour Government.

“In the time since then, there haven’t been the substantial changes that I would have wanted, and therefore I’m as gloomy about my prospects of living to see another Labour Government as I was then.

“However this is the Labour Party; he is the leader of the Labour Party; and members of the Labour Party, Members of Parliament, candidates [and] rank and file members will fight like hell to advance the Labour cause.”